WEVV-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Evansville, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox, and MyNetworkTV.
Owned by Allen Media Group, the station maintains studios on Carpenter and Bond Streets in downtown Evansville and a transmitter at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky.
WEEV-LD (channel 47) in Evansville operates as a low-power translator of WEVV-TV, relaying the Fox and MyNetworkTV programming shown on WEVV-DT2; this station's transmitter is located on Wolf Hills Road in Henderson along the Ohio River.
Competing independent station WLCN (channel 19, later WAZE-TV and now defunct)—which signed one month after WEVV began operations—primarily served the southern part of the market at the time.
The station became an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company on April 5, 1987, when the network debuted its inaugural lineup of prime time programming, which aired on Sunday evenings.
As part of the SAFER Act, WEVV-TV kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.
[8] On June 24, 2011, WEVV-TV signed on a new digital low-power translator station on UHF channel 47,[9] under the callsign W47EE-D, to relay WEVV-DT2's programming in 720p high definition over-the-air in the immediate Evansville/Henderson area.
On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its stations to WEHT owner and WTVW operator Nexstar Broadcasting Group for $270 million, in a deal that also included rights to the local marketing agreements involving stations owned by Comcorp partner company White Knight Broadcasting.
Since there are fewer than eight full-power stations in the Evansville market, neither Nexstar nor its partner company (and WTVW owner) Mission Broadcasting could legally buy WEVV.
However, none of the changes to its newscasts helped the station in the ratings, and WEVV remained continually in fourth place behind WFIE, WEHT and WTVW.
In 2002, the station began airing local weather cut-ins on weekday evenings, which were produced by WeatherVision out of its headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi.
[24] The stations' signals are multiplexed: Ever since its inception, the WEVV-DT2 subchannel had been airing in 16:9 widescreen standard definition, and its high definition simulcast was exclusive to low-power WEEV-LD, which meant that Fox programming in HD had only been available on cable and satellite outside the immediate Evansville area; however, since an upgrade to their multiplexer equipment sometime in January 2020, the WEVV-DT2 subchannel started broadcasting in 1080i full HD over-the-air (rather than the 720p format of most other Fox affiliates).